Our tomato crop was a bust this year. The grape tomatoes did well for a few weeks, but the crop was felled by a combination of too much rain in the spring and the oppressive July heat that normally does our crop in before August. Even the farmers markets only had a few varieties by early August. We’ve been surviving on some homegrown Arkansas tomatoes and ones shipped in from other parts of the South. Even when tomatoes are sparse we can’t go a full summer without making bruschetta and caprese at least once.
You can’t beat a grilled cheese and roasted tomato soup on a rainy day. Since we’ve been in tomato hoarding mode we’ve had to make roasted pepper soup instead. Not too shabby.
At least its been a banner year for eggplant and clearance beer.
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Love toasties! Love roasted pepper soup! Win Win 🙂
It’s too bad about the tomatoes but those yellow ones look delicious. Caprese is one of my favourite salads, but it infuriates me when a restaurant puts it on the menu in the middle of winter. Love the roasted pepper soup too.
those yellow tomatoes look very delicious.